1*8 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES, 



far diftant mountains of Wicklow may be 

 feen towering beyond the channel. On the 

 other fide, towards the eaft, is a fine and 

 varied profpedl of the Britim Alps, where 

 Snowdon, whofe 



Confpicuous many a league, the mariner, 

 Bound homeward, and in hope already there, 

 Greets with three cheers, exulting- 

 And the lofty Glyder are feen to far over- 

 top the reft. 



Caernarvon is in the Parifh of Llanbublic, 

 and the parifh church, dedicated to St. Pub- 

 licius fon of the Emperor Maximus and 

 Helena the daughter of Octavius Duke of 

 Cornwall, is fituated about half a mile from 

 the town. Within it I was fliewn a mar- 

 ble monument, on which were two recum- 

 bent figures of Sir William GryfTyd, of 

 Penrhyn, who died in 1587, and Margaret 

 his wife. The names and dates are at pre- 

 fent nearly erafed from fome mifchievous 



perfons 



